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Jonah
One of the 12 Minor Prophets in the Old Testament, whose story is told in the Book of Jonah. (His narrative is part of a larger book, The Twelve, in the Jewish canon.) God orders Jonah to prophesy against the wickedness of Nineveh, but Jonah refuses to believe that the people of this hated foreign city deserve salvation, and sails away on a ship in the opposite direction. When a great storm threatens to destroy the ship, he confesses his fault and asks the crew to throw him overboard. A great fish swallows him, but he prays for deliverance and the fish spews him out on dry ground. He goes on to Nineveh and preaches God's message, and its sinful people repent. The book was probably written in the 5th or 4th cent. BC.
Montale
Italian poet, prose writer, editor, and translator. Montale began his literary activities after World War I, cofounding a journal, writing for other journals, and serving as a library director in Florence. His first book of poems, Cuttlefish Bones (1925), expressed the bitter pessimism of the postwar period. He was identified with Hermeticism in the 1930s and '40s, before his works became progressively introverted and obscure. The Storm and Other Poems (1956) and subsequent works showed increasing skill, warmth, and directness. His stories and sketches were collected in The Butterfly of Dinard (1956). He received the Nobel Prize in 1975.
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